Side Street Page #2

You don't look so good, son.

I'm okay.

What's done is done.

What's the use of worrying? | Other people have lost their business.

Just stop thinking about it | and try and get something steady.

With an extra mouth to feed soon, | you got to think about a steady job.

- Ellen's at the store? | - She's at the city clinic.

Just a regular checkup.

Joe Norson doesn't have the | cold toughness it takes to be a criminal.

He thought he was stealing | a couple of hundred dollars.

But this is 30,000. | More than he bargained for.

More than he knows how to handle.

What to do? Where to hide?

Fear, confusion and panic are setting in.

Reason and judgment are going.

Joe, it's me.

Right away, honey.

Joe, look.

It's the one you've been looking at | in the hardware store.

They marked it down to 89 cents.

You wanted it, didn't you?

How could you tell?

Let's go to Sheepshead Bay tomorrow. | You can fish off the pier.

We'll take lunch.

Honey, you're through with clinics.

Reserve a private room | and get a doctor, your own doctor.

We're gonna have our baby in style.

I got a new job, a steady one, | upstate in Schenectady.

Remember my telling you | about my staff sergeant, Ben?

Well, I ran into him today.

He's been doing swell | the last couple of years in Schenectady.

And he gave me a job. | It looks like a good one too.

- Well, that's wonderful, dear, but 200... | - Well, he made me take it.

He said he'd take it out of my pay | a few dollars at a time.

Joe, you didn't do anything foolish?

You didn't borrow from some loan shark?

You're just not used to prosperity.

Ben wants me | to take the train with him tonight.

Tonight?

Well, he wants to show me around. | Set me up.

I gotta get moving, honey.

What did the doctor say?

About the middle | or the end of next week, he thinks.

- What kind of work is it, Joe? | - Well, it's selling.

Ben's in the electrical-supply business. | You know, bulbs, switches, machinery.

It's wholesale.

Everything's packed. I need this.

Ben's a great little businessman.

We used to kid him | about making money during the war.

In Sicily, he started to trade with a pack | of gum. After three different trades...

...he wound up | with a case of champagne and a cow.

Joe, I'm so happy for you.

I wish you didn't have to go tonight.

I'll write tomorrow. | Next day at the latest.

I'm sure to be back | before you go to the hospital.

I'll write you, honey.

I'll be back in time.

Beer, Nick.

You coming from someplace or going?

Well, I got a job out of town.

- Through with the post office? | - Yeah.

Better to get hold of something steady. | Especially with the kid on the way.

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